2 Chronicles 4:1
New International Version
He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

New Living Translation
Solomon also made a bronze altar 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.

English Standard Version
He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

Berean Standard Bible
He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

King James Bible
Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

New King James Version
Moreover he made a bronze altar: twenty cubits was its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height.

New American Standard Bible
Then he made a bronze altar, twenty cubits in length, twenty cubits in width, and ten cubits in height.

NASB 1995
Then he made a bronze altar, twenty cubits in length and twenty cubits in width and ten cubits in height.

NASB 1977
Then he made a bronze altar, twenty cubits in length and twenty cubits in width and ten cubits in height.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then he made a bronze altar, twenty cubits in length and twenty cubits in width and ten cubits in height.

Amplified Bible
Then Solomon made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits in length, twenty cubits in width, and ten cubits in height.

Christian Standard Bible
He made a bronze altar 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He made a bronze altar 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.

American Standard Version
Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he made an altar of brass, ten cubits its length, and ten cubits its width, and ten cubits its height.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he made a brazen altar, the length of it twenty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits, and the height ten cubits.

Contemporary English Version
Solomon had a bronze altar made that was nine meters square and four and a half meters high.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high.

English Revised Version
Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He made a bronze altar 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.

Good News Translation
King Solomon had a bronze altar made, which was 30 feet square and 15 feet high.

International Standard Version
Solomon also constructed a bronze altar 20 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

Literal Standard Version
And he makes an altar of bronze: twenty cubits its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height.

Majority Standard Bible
He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

New American Bible
Then he made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

NET Bible
He made a bronze altar, 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.

New Revised Standard Version
He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

New Heart English Bible
Then he made an altar of bronze, thirty-four feet and five inches, its length, and thirty-four feet and five inches, its breadth, and seventeen feet and three inches its height.

Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length of it, and twenty cubits the breadth of it, and ten cubits the hight of it.

World English Bible
Then he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

Young's Literal Translation
And he maketh an altar of brass, twenty cubits its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height.

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Context
The Bronze Altar and Molten Sea
1He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high. 2He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.…

Cross References
Exodus 27:1
"You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.

Exodus 27:2
Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.

1 Kings 8:64
On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.

2 Kings 16:14
He also took the bronze altar that stood before the LORD from the front of the temple (between the new altar and the house of the LORD) and he put it on the north side of the new altar.

2 Chronicles 8:12
At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico.

2 Chronicles 15:8
When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD's temple.

Ezekiel 43:13
These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:


Treasury of Scripture

Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

an altar

2 Chronicles 1:5
Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.

Exodus 27:1-8
And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits…

1 Kings 8:22,64
And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: …

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2 Chronicles 4
1. The altar of brass
2. The molten sea upon twelve oxen
6. The ten lavers, candlesticks, and tables
9. The courts, and the instruments of brass
19. The instruments of gold














(a) THE PRINCIPAL VESSELS OF THE TEMPLE (2Chronicles 4:1-10).

THE BRAZEN ALTAR (2Chronicles 4:1).

(l) An altar of brass.--The brazen altar, or altar of burnt offering, made by Solomon, is not noticed in the parallel chapters of Kings (1 Kings 6, 7) which describe the construction of the temple and its vessels of service, but it is incidentally mentioned in another passage of the older work (1Kings 9:25), and its existence seems to be implied in 1Kings 8:22; 1Kings 8:64. This altar stood in the inner court of the temple. It rose from a terraced platform. (Comp. Ezekiel 43:13-17.) The Hebrew of this verse is such as to suggest that it must have existed in the original document. The style is the same. (Comp. the construction of the numerals with the noun, and note the word qom?h, "height," now used for the first time by the chronicler.) It would appear, therefore, that the verse has been accidentally omitted from the text of Kings. . . .

Verse 1. - An altar of brass. This in worthier material superseded the temporary altar of the tabernacle (Exodus 27:1, 2), made of shittim wood, and its dimensions five cubits long and broad and three cubits high. Large as was the present altar of brass as compared with the altar that preceded, it fell far short of the requirements of the grand day of dedication (1 Kings 8:64). No statement of the making of this altar occurs in the parallel. The place of it would be between vers. 22 and 23 of 1 Kings 7. But that Solomon made it is stated in 1 Kings 9:25, and other references to its presence are found in 1 Kings 8:22, 54, 64, etc. The position given to the altar is referred to alike in 1 Kings 8:22 and 2 Chronicles 6:12, 13, as in the court of the temple. It may be well to note that the altar, sacrifice, comes first, and is first spoken of.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He made
וַיַּ֙עַשׂ֙ (way·ya·‘aś)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

a bronze
נְחֹ֔שֶׁת (nə·ḥō·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5178: Copper, something made of that metal, coin, a fetter, base

altar
מִזְבַּ֣ח (miz·baḥ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4196: An altar

twenty
עֶשְׂרִ֤ים (‘eś·rîm)
Number - common plural
Strong's 6242: Twenty, twentieth

cubits
אַמָּה֙ (’am·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 520: A mother, a cubit, a door-base

long,
אָרְכּ֔וֹ (’ā·rə·kōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 753: Length

twenty
וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים (wə·‘eś·rîm)
Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural
Strong's 6242: Twenty, twentieth

cubits
אַמָּ֖ה (’am·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 520: A mother, a cubit, a door-base

wide,
רָחְבּ֑וֹ (rā·ḥə·bōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7341: Breadth, width

and ten
וְעֶ֥שֶׂר (wə·‘e·śer)
Conjunctive waw | Number - feminine singular construct
Strong's 6235: Ten

cubits
אַמּ֖וֹת (’am·mō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 520: A mother, a cubit, a door-base

high.
קוֹמָתֽוֹ׃ (qō·w·mā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6967: Height


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